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Isn't that where the debate rests on the 3.0L TDI? It is legal as it protects the engines when they are cold. At least that is my understanding. If that is disabled will my TDI be damaged during cold weather? If that is something that VW cannot get around I would expect them to buy back my vehicle and pay dearly for their mischief. If something else I have read is true, many gas engines do the same thing to protect the engines until they warm up. Which explains why our Mazda failed when I took it to the smog station a mile from the house. Then when I drove it for about 15 minutes to another station it passed with flying colors.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10847979/10000-European-Union-officials-better-paid-than-David-Cameron.html
Isn't the issue kind of the opposite with VWs? You pass IM because the software recognizes the test and whenever you are just driving around, the emissions controls are disabled. The ICE warm-up before testing isn't a cheat, but is more reflective of normal driving conditions, so you'd have emissions being controlled 99% of the time..
Apple and kites.
Regarding the EU, I suspect Germany profits from it more than anyone - it is the German domination of Europe, this time finally without military idiocy. Its days are numbered, too - too many economic issues and demographic disasters just around the corner.
Your smog guy is correct. Most gassers put out far more pollution until they get warmed up. Where is the EPA/CARB when you need them?
(you can apply that to just about any post in the last 20, LOL)
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a30301/even-more-emissions-cheating-software-reportedly-found-in-vw-diesels/
Point #4 with WAY cheaper fuel prices has failed to add many more miles, as the eco cons have feared! Nor has it got the economy moving towards real growth. Anyone can look at the numbers! 2014's is only 2.33% above the 2009's CRASH! ? /5 years is .00467 % miles growth per year! http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
Does anyone remember the BHO administration's Dr. Steven Chu's advancing the administrations $10 per gal US RUG/PUG? FF to 7/8 years in office. Even the POTUS took credit for $1.99 per gal gasoline with much over that being an unfair tax, even as the policies were designed to cut the industry off at the knees!!
Many energy and climate researchers believe that CCS is vital to avoiding a climate catastrophe. Because it could allow the globe to keep burning its most abundant fuel source while drastically reducing carbon dioxide and soot, it may be more important—though much less publicized—than any renewable-energy technology for decades to come. No less than Steven Chu, the Nobel-winning physicist who was US secretary of energy until last year, has declared CCS essential. “I don’t see how we go forward without it,” he says.
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/clean-coal/
Inventys Thermal Technologies has announced that former US Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu has joined its board of directors.
The Vancouver, Canada-based firm is in the process of commercialising an innovative technology for carbon capture and storage (CCS) that significantly less costly than other CCS technologies.
Inventys' technology is based on a ceramic material on a drum that rotates inside smokestacks to capture carbon dioxide from flue gas streams. Dr. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, told the New York Times that alternative CCS technologies based on amine adsorption were too expensive.
http://www.modernpowersystems.com/news/newschu-joins-board-of-ccs-firm-4149844
“To mitigate the risks of climate change, we will need to capture carbon from all localized sources, especially coal and natural gas power plants, and also from cement, steel, fuel, and petrochemical plants,” says Inventys Board Member Dr. Steven Chu, former US Energy Secretary and Nobel Laureate. “Inventys is developing technical advances that should dramatically reduce the cost of carbon capture so that it can be deployed worldwide. If successful, our technology could revolutionize carbon capture.”
http://inventysinc.com/2016/05/24/leadership-changes/
Would an 11 speed A/T trans be a good TDI match?http://finance.yahoo.com/news/honda-taking-transmissions-level-madness-174902835.html
3.0 L TDI news !https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/audi-to-suspend-r-d-chief-over-dieselgate-scandal-report/
There go your heirloom tomatoes.
My roof is already painted white.
CA has been working very hard to relentless over a LONG period of time killing agribusiness! Most places with agri jobs have 25% plus unemployment. The absolutely over abundant harvests are almost hateful to eco con types. They do not want to be the "bread basket" to the world anymore, which was what it was, when I was a child. So there are loads of radical shifts. I think UC Davis will remain the wests "Harvard" of agricultural studies! Go Aggies!https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Davis
I'm unsure as to how, what rpm, speeds & conditions, the up/ down shifting would proceed on an 11 sp triple clutch "DSG". This might be a tough comparison, but it would have to outperform a 6/7 sp M/T & & an 8 sp A/T.
I can't say I blame you ! But on the other hand, I've had more O2 sensor changes on TLC's and other gassers than on any to all (my) diesels.(393,000 miles) Now, that is no guarantee that I won't have the issue in the future, on any to all diesels.
In contrast, another clue that they trying to kill diesel ! (Nuclear cruise missiles fired into empty tents)
Yup, so far 1 hapless engineer! Yes he's probably ruined for life. The CEO popped a $60 M golden parachute to then ...leave.
So does anyone think Wells Fargo Bank is going to get fined anything close to $14.7 billion ? Most in Congress will do a Barney Frank imitation, flog the air with wet noodles. Then it will disappear into nothingness....Then in some obscure bill, they will refund the WFB any of the fines that were levied.
Wells Fargo (WFC) employees have said they were pressured to meet unrealistic sales goals and that they opened the bogus accounts so they wouldn't lose their jobs.
It seems the worse the crime the higher the payout?
He addressed the outrage over Carrie Tolstedt, the head of the division where the fake accounts were created who is set to walk away with $124 million in stocks and options, when she retires later this year.
Same Justice dept, who is going to prison from WF?
Stumpf has refused to step down, despite calls for him to do so.
Stumpf reiterated that "managers and managers of managers" were fired, and for the first time said at least one "area president" was also terminated.
The Wells Fargo hearing inspired a rare burst of bipartisanship from Republicans and Democrats who teamed up to hold the hearing.
"You have done something I've never seen in 10 years: You have united this committee -- and not in a good way," Sen. Jon Tester told Stumpf.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/20/news/companies/wells-fargo-ceo-apology/
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I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but in checking the VWGoA online claims portal it is now asking for photos (& upload) of specific documents for the processing of affected TDI's.
VW investors seek $ 9 B? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/vw-investors-seek-8-2-billion-euros-damages-085740103--sector.html
It was a VERY VERY VERY good couple of days that year!
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"The report revealed that under the new European exhaust emissions standard called Euro 6 rules, German manufacturer Volkswagen was selling among the cleanest diesel vehicles.
“Volkswagen is not the carmaker producing the diesel cars with highest nitrogen oxides emissions and the failure to investigate other companies brings disgrace on the European regulatory system,” says Greg Archer."
The same disgrace should be equally applicable to EPA/CARB. I'll be damned if I will sell my cars because EPA/CARB completely & utterly FAILED to do their jobs! It should have been apparent to all blind oem's that EPA/CARB would NOT check. Indeed for gassers, that has been the SOP for years ! You could see it as far back as 2004 Toyota Prius mpg fiasco! (60 C/50 H mpg vs 43/40 mpg)
They appear to want to shame/blame TDI owners not wanting to sell. The truth is if they were actually checking, THEY wouldn't have this problem. I say if they want fairness, buy my "affected" car for FULL prices paid & taxes incurred on the next car!
In US markets emissions studies in the most polluted place in the (US market). nation, Southern California shows/demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt, that most N0x emissions are caused by gassers, (being 97 to 95% of the PVF.) A fair amount to a large # &% of N0x emissions are also caused by government exempted caveats ! It is widely acknowledged that even IF the PVF, passenger vehicle fleet caused ZERO N0x emissions, the government CAVEATES will EFFECT N0x NON compliance . N0x standards will STILL NOT be met!!!!!!
SoCal'a air quality is a lot better than it was in the 60s and a lot of that can be attributed to cleaning up gassers.
Is there anybody out there that seriously doubts this? I have absolutely no problem with that amount of incredulousness. All I need you to do is to pay for and let in my next EU specification TDI order from the German factories & subsequent operations fines, etc. for the next ...30 years ! Not so incredulous after all eh? Imprisonment is a probable outcome also. You could be my proxy!
Poor ports of Long Beach & Loz Angelez! -4.3 % imports http://www.wsj.com/articles/imports-decline-at-southern-california-ports-1473965514 yay+ 10.5% exxports !
She's doing the Sergeant Schultz ?
(India does make Jags and Land Rovers via Tata, but the factories and maybe the R&D are mostly in the EU still).
Hm, be interesting to see analytics here on how many people are researching diesel vehicles. Usually the most heavily researched vehicle is the CR-V and I never dug much deeper than that. The F-150 is second, iirc.